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Mikaela Angelina Uy
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2018
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Unlike its image based counterpart, point cloud based retrieval for place recognition has remained as an unexplored and unsolved problem. This is largely due to the difficulty in extracting local feature descriptors from a point cloud that can subsequently be encoded into a global descriptor for the retrieval task. In this paper, we propose the PointNetVLAD where we leverage on the recent success of deep networks to solve point cloud based retrieval for place recognition. Specifically, our PointNetVLAD is a combination/modification of the existing PointNet and NetVLAD, which allows end-to-end training and inference to extract the global descriptor from a given 3D point cloud. Furthermore, we propose the lazy triplet and quadruplet loss functions that can achieve more discriminative and generalizable global descriptors to tackle the retrieval task. We create benchmark datasets for point cloud based retrieval for place recognition, and the experimental results on these datasets show the feasibility of our PointNetVLAD. Our code and the link for the benchmark dataset downloads are available in our project website. http://github.com/mikacuy/pointnetvlad/
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Autonomous Driving and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping(SLAM) are becoming increasingly important in real world, where point cloud-based large scale place recognition is the spike of them. Previous place recognition methods have achieved acceptable performances by regarding the task as a point cloud retrieval problem. However, all of them are suffered from a common defect: they cant handle the situation when the point clouds are rotated, which is common, e.g, when viewpoints or motorcycle types are changed. To tackle this issue, we propose an Attentive Rotation Invariant Convolution (ARIConv) in this paper. The ARIConv adopts three kind of Rotation Invariant Features (RIFs): Spherical Signals (SS), Individual-Local Rotation Invariant Features (ILRIF) and Group-Local Rotation Invariant features (GLRIF) in its structure to learn rotation invariant convolutional kernels, which are robust for learning rotation invariant point cloud features. Whats more, to highlight pivotal RIFs, we inject an attentive module in ARIConv to give different RIFs different importance when learning kernels. Finally, utilizing ARIConv, we build a DenseNet-like network architecture to learn rotation-insensitive global descriptors used for retrieving. We experimentally demonstrate that our model can achieve state-of-the-art performance on large scale place recognition task when the point cloud scans are rotated and can achieve comparable results with most of existing methods on the original non-rotated datasets.
In the field of large-scale SLAM for autonomous driving and mobile robotics, 3D point cloud based place recognition has aroused significant research interest due to its robustness to changing environments with drastic daytime and weather variance. However, it is time-consuming and effort-costly to obtain high-quality point cloud data for place recognition model training and ground truth for registration in the real world. To this end, a novel registration-aided 3D domain adaptation network for point cloud based place recognition is proposed. A structure-aware registration network is introduced to help to learn features with geometric information and a 6-DoFs pose between two point clouds with partial overlap can be estimated. The model is trained through a synthetic virtual LiDAR dataset through GTA-V with diverse weather and daytime conditions and domain adaptation is implemented to the real-world domain by aligning the global features. Our results outperform state-of-the-art 3D place recognition baselines or achieve comparable on the real-world Oxford RobotCar dataset with the visualization of registration on the virtual dataset.
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